Devices with Android TV include the Google Play Store among their applications. The Google application store that offers access to all compatible apps is also the one that allows us to know which are the updates available for the apps we have installed.
And in this article we are going to teach you to access the Google Play Store completely on Android TV so that you can manage your applications. It is about manage the apps, knowing which ones we have available to update or by having them update automatically.
Play Store without secrets on Android TV
The first step is none other than locate the shortcut to Google Play Store among the applications installed on our device. It is usually a highly visible icon, so we will have no trouble finding it. We must click on it to enter the Google Play Store.
Although we take it for granted, clarify that it is necessary that we be registered with our Google account. From there, we will see in the upper right area the corresponding icon with our profile and on it we must press.
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On the left side of the screen we will see a panel with the option “Settings” and about her, “Manage applications and games”, which is the one that interests us. Before clicking on it, we will see how a table appears on the right with the possible pending updates.
Once inside “Manage applications and games” We will see a list of the applications that have an update available. We can update one by one or, if there are several updates, click on “Update all”.
We will see how the updates appear in the download queue. We can also see the applications installed on the device we are using and those installed on other devices under the same account.
This Play Store menu is not so well known, but allows the management of all applications that we have pending to update and to make them update automatically if we want to ignore the process.